A Clockwork Orange" Is a Film About a Gang of "Droogs

"A Clockwork Orange" is a film about a gang of "droogs" who take pleasure in crime. They enjoy raping and torturing their innocent victims for their own pleasure. The main characters' name is Alex. Alex's diagnosis is Antisocial Personality Disorder (Psychopath). When caught and arrested, classical conditioning is used in order to rid Alex of his vindictive thoughts, but is not very successful.

Antisocial Personality Disorder is a Disorder that cannot be easily diagnosed. It is often associated with criminal behavior. In recent studies it is said that 65-75% of all criminals have APD. It is so uneasily diagnosed because these people come in all shapes and sizes. The main symptom of this disorder is total disregard for the right of others and a total disregard for society (www.faculty.ncwc.edu). Certain symptoms can be associated with the disorder. Not feeling guilty about anything that they do is the most common. Some other symptoms include sense of entitlement, unremorseful, apathetic to others, unconscionable behavior, blameful of others, manipulative and conning, affectively cold, disparate understanding, socially irresponsible, disregardful of obligations, nonconforming to norms, irresponsible (www.faculty.ncwc.edu).

"Psychopath describes a pattern of antisocial personality traits (Raulin, p. 373)." Psychopaths are not like sociopaths at all. Psychopaths represent the "monsters" of society and are often associated with the criminals of society. Most psychopaths are males but there are a growing number of females out there. Fearlessness is the most common characteristic in a psychopath. Other characteristics include superficial charm, grandiose self-worth, need for stimulation, pathological lying, conning and manipulation, lack of empathy, and lack of remorse or guilt.

A gang of teenagers embarks on a killing and raping rampage and Alex gets caught by the police. The diagnoses of psychopath were chosen for Alex...

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Introduction and Methodology of Study
1.1 Topic:
The topic of the study is “Psychological Analysis of a FilmClockworkOrange”.
1.2 Objective:
1. To analyze the movie based on its structural elements.
2. To analyze the movie based on Adler’s theory of Individual Psychology.
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* Particularly the studies of the Clock Work Orange movie.
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the realm of A ClockworkOrange, by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question
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"If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockworkorange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour
and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil
or State"(Burgess ix). Burgess expresses the idea that man can not be
completely good or evil and must have both in order to create a moral choice.
The book deals upon reforming a criminal with only good morals and conditioning
an automated response to "evil." Burgess enforces the idea of the medical model
of corrections, in terms of rehabilitating an offender, which is up to the
individual. That one should determine the cause and then find an exclusive
treatment to resolve that individual's case, then apply it. This is the case
with the character Alex, a juvenile delinquent introduced into prisonization
then conditioned by governmental moral standards. This lack of personal moral
choice imposed upon Alex creates conflicting situations in which he has no
control over. This is apparent when trying to readjust into society. As
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Within futuristic London, many sexual and heinous crimes are committed by a group of young men and the retaliation of their victims seeking vengeance, often acting as vigilantes. The domino effect of the crimes ends up with offenders turning into victims and vice versa.
A group of young men, self proclaimed as a gang of “droogs” dress up during the night in white outfits, hats and masks and go around the city committing street crimes, assaulting random innocent people, raping some and ultimately killing two. Within the gang of “droogs” there is a ringleader named Alex who dominates and intimidates the rest of the group, Dim, Georgie, and Pete. They all have a lack of conscience, remorse and demonstrate extreme violent behavior ultimately exhibiting sociopathic qualities.
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